The invention provides
phenolphthalein type copolyimide. According to the
phenolphthalein type copolyimide, a side-hanging
phenolphthalein constructional unit and a side-hanging
ether bond flexible unit are introduced into a rigid main chain of
polyimide, and the phenolphthalein type copolyimide has the characteristics of good
solubility, good processibility, good
mechanical property, good
heat resistance and the like, is suitable for injection molding,
extrusion, mold pressing and solution
spinning processing, and has a good application prospect in related fields of high-temperature-resistant
engineering plastics, films, fibers, adhesives, coatings,
advanced composite materials and the like. Besides, the phenolphthalein type copolyimide is prepared from raw materials including phenolphthalein
monomer I, double-X-replaced
polyimide monomer II and double-Y-replaced
monomer III, and the phenolphthalein type copolyimide is prepared by virtue of an aromatic
nucleophilic substitution reaction; the preparation method is low in cost, the
polymer is excellent in performance and can be adjusted and controlled by virtue of a copolymerization unit, the defect that a dianhydride and
diamine method adopted to prepare
polyimide has a complex synthetic
route is overcome, and the production cost of polyimide can be greatly reduced.